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ie in Jacksonville, Fla., fina -
ly brought the 1949 (and ’50T gridiron season to a close. Th|e
22-13 win of the “Rebels” over the “Yankees" turned out tp
Saturday’s Senior Bowl
be something akin to the Dec. 3 SMU-Notre Dame clash.
r Just as the Mustang-Irish tilt finally brought Kyle Rotje
publicity on a national scale after he had been playing in th|e
shadow^ of highly publicized Doak Walker—so Saturdajl’js
tilt added to the stature of Travis Tidwell, fl
The talented Tidwell, however, won’t reap the rewards
of his fine play when all-star selections are made next fall,
as he has completed his football eligibility at Auburn. Rote,
bn the Other hand, can expect to fall heir to some of the fin
est pre-season copy that the nation’s sports writers can pound
out on their typewriters before the Karo Kid begins playing
his final year as a Pony this fall.
.Lack of pre-season publicity may have been what kept
the former Birmingham, Ala., prep star off of the ’49 all-
everything teams. National propaganda prior to the cam-j
paign and during the early season contests was devoted
largely to Eddie Price of Tulane and Charlie Hunsinger cf
Florida as far as Southeastern Conference backs were con
cerned;
Both Price and Hunsinger failed to take advantage of
this “head start” when playing against key opponents and
consequently lost out in the final rankings. Tidwell, on tie
basis of his ’49 play, was named the most valuable player
in the SEC, yet the only All-American team he was named to
was Williamson’s.
Tossin’ Travis Started Fast
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aren’t actually as surprising as Hairy Gilmer, the great Alabama
they might seem Jon H.he surface, tosser, were attending the sanie
The Tiger quarterback as a fresh- high school, that Tidwell—not All-
man in 1940 led the entire iiftion American Gilmer—had ; been the
* ’ *" ... Yione first team tailback; seems Harry
1 1 -L -C rrs •„ ' 1 A.1
in tod offense—topping
dthei' than UT’s Bobby Layne.
That was the fall when
had to sub for Travis at the time.
However, some time in the service
mat, was me mil wnen toe 8eparated hiph and co nege
Steers temporarily unseated Army for Ti £ welli and me anwh le
a jump-passer for the Crims )n
be upset by Rice. Notre Dame, of j 1 - -
^ e * Williamson explained his choi
spot nationally, a‘bed by Navy s f the Auburnite is his system’s
sensational 18-21 battle with Army. .. most valuable player of t f, e 8e
fWell, great things were predict- son” (for the whole nation—t
ed of young Tidwell at the time. SEC award was a coaches’ selec-
But that old injury jinx that pla- tion) by describing Timvell as
gues so many? 1 prospective stars truly inspiring player. The pro
spoiled his next two seasons when nosticator said that the Alabama
he was bothered by a broken ankle, Poly eleven was not plated to wi n
and by the fall of ’49 the sports a single game, yet it won two apd
writers had forgotten him. tied three more in ten claspes
In ’46 it was announced in the largely'because of Tidwell. ,
Tigers Thumped Some Powers
Victims of--|the Plains Tigers way of comparison, Le Baron of
were Mississippi State jand^Ala- the “Yankees” had wori the most
bama; the tied teams jfere Flor- valuable award for the East-Westj
ida, Georgia, and Clemson. Even Shrine Classic im Sanf Francisco
Tulane and Georgia Tech,, win- last Saturday. In Jacksonville; the
ners over Auburn, were battled Auburn back passed apd ran, as
down to the wire for close losses. well as quarterbacked for his team;
Acting as quarterback Saturday except for the presence of na-
for the “Rebels” (athletes from the tional punting record-holder Jus-
Southeastern and Southern Con- tice, he probably would have punt-
ference), Price, Hunsinger, and ed, too.
Herb Rich of Vanderbilt, who * Of course, brilliant as Tidwell
played with him. ' -'y was, he didn’t completely spoil the
Not even the opposing “Yankees” day for the other, more highly
(players from the rest of the publicized players. “Rebel” end
country, including the SWC) could Art Weiner njade up some for liis
produce as fine a performer, des- rather disappointing Cotton Bowl
pite the-' talent present in the performance, as did Justice,
-.form of Doak Walker, Lynn Chand- Walker had one sizzling 50-yard
nois of Michigan State, JEddie Le- punt return that set up a sco|re,
Baron of College ; of I the Pacific, Chandnois and Borneman were ;f-
and Paul Campbell an^ Ray Borne- fective,-and : the aerial cbmbinati
man of Texas. of Catnpbell, to Oklahoma’s Jim
Tidwell also was the outstanding Owens rivaled the Tidvrell-Weiner
player in the Blue-Gray classic in duo for brilliance. Line; play
Montgomery, Ala., last week; by terrific, too. ,
'Clippings from the Sports Fronts
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“Buddy” Davis, 6’ 8” Cadet center, outjumps SMU center
“Cotton” Mitchell at the beginning of last Wednesday’s 53-
48 loss to the Mustangs. Ag guard Jewell McDowell (10) is ready
tdj take the tip as Ponies Jack Brown, right; Fred Freeman (42),
"Titer, and “Whitey” Holms move into action. Long John DeWitt
be seen behind SMU ace Brown.
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’Mural Basketball
Closes This Week
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Gayther Nowell, pro at the Bryan 19.’il when they trounced Iona,
golf links and Aggie coach, has 29-0. The Spartans shoijld be full-
j requested.'that ail persons desir- fledged members of that circuit by
ingTto go out for the ’50 Cadet ’52 since only schedule^difficiiltjies
“ tigolf team contact him at once at are keeping them out of the Mid-
' his' office at the Bryan municipal western conference’s ; ehampion-
course. ship battles right now. 1 ^
w A&M may have received ari’as- A&M met the Ijmsing team once
■ sist from “influenza” . . . Arkun- beftirc, in 19:14, losing^] l.‘{-26, to
sus basketball dbach Presley As- thenMichiganites.
i kew has entered a hospital suffer- Speaking of football reminds us
ing from an attack of the flu. He 0 f the many former Aggie folot-
probaUy won t be able to accom- bailers now making good in minor
pany jthe Porkers to Texas for circuits . . . Wendell Swann, fish
games with Rice and the Aggies elw i ! f r o„, J e ff Davis in '47, vas
(next Thursday, Jan. 12, for the named to Williamshn’s Jr. College
College Station tilt). All-America (he’s playing for Pan-
Ah announcement that the Ca- ola.JC); among Williamson’s hhn-
dets will meet Michigan State in orable mention JC players. were
a grid, contest in 1962 means''that tackle “Tiny” Hardin and quar-
the Maroons will meet a Big Ten terback Lecnler of Wharton (both
eleven for the first time since ’47 fish at A&M)
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By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Basketball semi-final brackets
were completed when E Air Force
defeated A Quartermaster 19-,12
in DeWare Field House, Friday
night. In the basketball-semi-final
matches tp be played this week
E Air Force is pitted against H
Air jForce and D Infantry meets A
Cavalry.
In the basketball game .between
E ipr Force and A QMC, Jack
Shugart of the Air Force and V.
R. porter of the Quartermaster
team tiedj for high honors with
six points each. Bob Dehonev of E
Flight and C. T. Neal of A QMC
werp two of the outstanding play
ers jin the; game.
Intramural football reached
the| quarterfinal stage after two
iied| hot. apd blue games last week.
H Air Force routed the cloak and
dagber mpn af ASA by three pen
etrations, although the score does
not jdescribe the brand of ball dis
played byj each of the teams. In
oth^r game of the week, A Coast
Artillery jumped G Air Force out
of the playoffs by two penetrations
althjough leach teams scored.
Hill Stars
Jphn “Podnuh” Hill of H Air-
Foi|:e was the main gun of the
airmen. Hill passed, ran, and kick
ed the ball all over the field. He
set: up oijie very probable touch
down with a long pass to A1 Sex-
ton( who ivus downed on the ASA
four yard line. ASA’s defense was
perfect atj they held the powerful
flyers for four dbwns and took pos-
sesiion of the pigskin on their own
onel foot line. In the closing plays
of the giifee, Carl Scudder, ASA
back, put | on quite an aerial show
us the A^A; team tried in vain to
geti back pi the ball game.
Jimmy Farrell of A Coast inter
cepted an air force pass and ran it
fori more than fifty yards down
the; sideline to' score. The point
after touchdown play by the Coast-
men was stalled with stellar play
from G; Flight’s line. Nick Holland
scored for the flyboys on a pass
from Kinsey Hallmark, who threw
the ball on a neat Statue of Lib
erty play. Point after touchdown
attempt failed, and the Coastmen
went on to win the game by two
penetrations. ; |
a ; Playoffs Begin
Quarterfinal playoffs in flag
fodjtball will begin today ‘with E
Infantry battling it out with the
Senior Company, A Quartermaster
meeting B Engineers,; A Infantry
tangling with H Air Force, and A
Coast Artillery taking to the grid
iron . against B Infantry.
Horseshoe play continued inspite
of the cold weather. C Infantry
scored a win over A Vet and A
Signal "Corps repeated this act with
a Win over B Composite. Both
games were forfeits. A QMC took
a forfeit-win over A Air Force,.
Chem Warfare pitched a win over
drowned the flaming 1 torch of A
Ordnance.
There have been 540 games play
ed this school year in basketball,
tennis, football, horseshoes, and
^landball intramural events. In all
of these events there have been
7,311 participants. A&B’s intra
mural program is the largest one
of its kind.
Baylor Tosses TU
In Cellar, 49-43
Waco, i'ex., Jan. 9—•A’)—The
Baylor Bears got back on the win
ning trail here Saturday defeating
the Texas; Longhorns, 49-43, in
the Southwest Conference opener
for th^ Brjiins before 3,200 parti
san fans. |
The lead in the closely fought
game changed hands 12 times; with
Baylor takjng a final lead with 4
minutes to go in rthe game, on
Odell Preston’s goal. Preston add
ed another free throw and with
two minutes to go the Bears start
ed freezing the ball. Then taking
advantage of Texas personal fouls,
the Bruins; went, on to win their
sixth gumd in thirteen starts.
Don Heathington paced the
Bruins with 17 points, before go
ing out with five personal fouls
with seven minutes to go. Veteran
Tom Hamilton paced the Steers
with 13 points.
Michigan State'Meets
Aggies There in ’52
College $tatioii, Tex., Jan. 9—<A*»
—A&M will play Michigan State in
football at East Lansing, Mich.,
Oct. 11, (952, Athletic • Director
Barlow Irvin announced today.
A return game between the "two
schools in |Dallas, Houston or Col
lege Station may be arranged for
1953 or 1954, Irvin said.’
Rebels Defeat Y
SWC Cuts Off P
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Monks Wins AFLA
Crown In Houston
By JOHN WHITMORE ?
Gerald Monks, member of the
Aggie fencing team, took top place
honors at the AFLA Novice Foil
competition meet held Saturday in
Houston, f
This win; came as a climax of
Monk’s wiqning 14 bouts with no
losses. The final point bout was
fought with Malcomb Call, Rice
fencer. Monk in a spectacular
fleches attack stryck Call with such
force that blade of Monks’ foil
was bent doubly. The blade re
bounded and flew approximately
30 feet over the heads of the
spectators.
This fleches attack is one in
which the offensive man lunges,
Five Opponents
Of Ags Listed
Top Hoopsters
BASED ON AP REPORTS
St. John’s of Brooklyn, a small
school with a murderous schedule,
was ranked the ; top college team
of the nation ih the Associated
Press’ first basketball poll of the
campaign. The Brooklynites down
ed NCAA champion Kentucky ayd
National Invitation Tourney king
pin San Francisco en route to its
sweep of its firpt 12 games;.
The Redmen (yes, Indians in
Brooklyn!) were toppled from the
unbeaten list last Tuesday by
CCNY, 54-52, bijit still nosed out
Kentucky Wildcats for the poll
leadership.
In all, 32 trains received at
least 16 points in the voting, de
monstrating the] spread of high
caliber teams thj-ough most of the
country.
I Kentucky Still Wins
Kentucky, a young, rebuilt team,
rallied after its 69-58 beating by
St. John’s and topped DePaul,
Purdue, VillanoVa, Bradley, and
Arkansas. The Wildcats won the
recent Sugar Bowl tournament.
Some idea of the prowess of the
teams that A&M has, played can
be gained by observing that five
of the eight teams that have
downed the Aggies are^among the
32 top quintets in the ^Sll. LIU
is ranked fourth, St. Louis
eleventh, and in the group from
spot 20 through '32, Oklahoma
A&M, Niagara, and Arizona are
listed.
Only SMU, Stanford, and Cali
fornia among victors over A&M
are not included on the poll.
Poll Results
The to;) teams (first-place bal
lots in parenthesis, and records in
cluding Tuesday night’s games);
Team— R<
1— St. John’s (00) 1!
2— Kentucky (!11) j... '
3— Bradley (2) J
‘ Long Is. U; (18) .11
5— Indiana (12)
6— Holy Cross (8)
7— N. 0. State| (4)
8— Duquesne
1 T/M
Pts.
696
630
485
470
418
315
232
141
140
102
9—UCLA
10— .-Minnesota |(1)
Tlhe second ten:
11— St. Louis I. 6-1 99
12— Missouri 8-1 94
13— Villanova J 7-2 88
14— CCNY (1) 8-2 88
in—Wisconsin 8-2 88
1«—Illinois 7-3 M
17— Oklahoma B-2
18— LaSalle I ;... 6-2 64
19— Bowling Gifeen 10-4 51
20— Kansas Stafe ......4 . . 9-3/ 46
Others with 16 or more points
included; Washington (lOi-l), 42;
Cincinnati (6-0), 41; Siena (13-0),
39; Oklahoma City U. (11-2), 39!
Western Kentucky ((L3), 33; San
Francisco (5-4), 31; Oklahoma
A&M (7-2), 28; Tulane (9-2). 20;
New York U. (1) (6-4), 17; Ni
agara (8-1), 16; Syracuse (7-i),
16; Arizona (8-1), 16.
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combining the lunge with a run
into his opponent. Out of the 14
fleches Monks attempted, 12 were
completed.
The only other serious threat
to the first place slot was Stewart
Hadden, Corpus Navy Station,! who
lost after a close 6-4 bout. Hadden
was the captain of the Yale fencing
team before he 1 became a naval of
ficer at Corpus.
Jennes Beaten by Gollob
Out of the eight men who went
down from A&M. five made the
semi-finals. E. T. Jenness, who
has been on the A&M teamj W
only four months, was beaten by.
Craus Gollob, 6-1. Gollob was the
winner of the Houston Prep meet
held three weeks ago.
Gollob beat Jenness with a series
of fast parry-ripostessi, Jenness
fought a defensive bout.
Carroll Bell from A&M missed
the minals by one touch. He lost
to Frank Lever, the fifth pflace
winner of last year’s meet. Lever
is the captain of the Rice team.
Bell was in very good form, us
ing many good, clean ripostes and
single disengages.
Wilson, Owen Win
Other Aggies who went to the
semi-finals were Curtis Wilson
and B. L. Owen. Twenty r nine men
participated in the meet.
Stewart Hadden came in the
second place slot after Monks
edged him out. Horace Flatt, Rice
blademan, came in third in the
meet.
A brief run down of the finals’
statistics was: Monks, 5-0; Had
den, 4-1; Flatt, 3-2; Lever, also
of Rice, 2-3, and Marvjn Mercado
of the University of Houston’s
team came in last with 1-4. fi
The meet was held [ under I the
auspices of the Amateur Fenting
League of America in the Rice In
stitute Gym. Part of the A&M
team is,scheduled to enter a novice
sibre and open foil meet which
will be held in Galveston next Sat
urday.
Snow Trucks’ Radios
Washington—— ^he Capital
Transit Co. has installed radios in
16 of its snow fighting trucks—
but not to amuse the drivers:
! The radios will be shortwave sets
by which the company will direct
the; trucks here and there to dump
sand.
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i Yankees in the Senior
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to th<
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Charlie Ju
line and Doal
Methodist lived
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The little Auburn qua
who was named most val
Southeastern Conference, got the
same honor in this classy field of
All-America and all-conference
players from evevy section of the
nation. I ! , IM ■ :
Tidwell tossed nineteen times to
connect on thirteen for an amazing
gain of 246 yards. End Art Weiner
of North Carolina, teamed With
Tidwell to make a great combina
tion. He fielded eight of those
throws for 189yaids||j; 4 ij,
Campbell Pa
The losing Yank;
Great| ■
also had
Campbell
threw twenity-seven times,* hit on
eighteen foe 147 yards.
bnly 20.000 fan* turned out to
see th«i All-Stars star. Bui they got
a real show tout of the fifty players.
Besides the;aerial fireworks was a „
demtonstratiton of toiigh) [ defensive f
line play by both walls.!!/ ; P
Tackle Wade W’alker of Okla- ^
homa and Center Clayton Tpnne-
maker of ; minnesato, both All-
America, led a Yankee iine that
held the Rebels to forty-six yards
by rushing! The Yanks coplijl run
for only pixthy-threto agbinst a
Rebel linje; that wai) tough from
end to end;
Offense Topped Defense
The pass defense looked mighty
weak in comparison. But it wasn’t
that nearly so much tos the ac
curacy with which Tidwell, Camp
bell and Eddie LeBaron.of College
of the Pacific could dmp that ball
in the rigiht spot.
Key kicli returns by Justice and
Doak Walker added to the thrills.
Walker started the Yiifiks off to
their Hist score with a ‘ rtinhttck
for fifty-seven yards.
Justice opened the way to two
Rebel touchdowns. He Went 26 to
began the first drive and 29 to
start the last. ![
Tidwell threw to Herb Rich, Van
derbilt bajek, for a 55-yard play
that scored the first Rebel 6-point
er. On fpprth down hes set one in
the arms I,of John O'Quinu, Wake
Foreest qpd, for 13 yards and the
second.
Price Scorey TD
Another Tidwell to Rich toss cov
in the
Eddie
ored it
9red most of 33 yards
touchdown march,
j Tulgne ' fullback, scor
th a 1-foot smackover.
Dick Sheffield, Tulane, bobted
o extra points and the R<bels
r pa(r when Jim
orest, blocked one
4f LeBa t on’s kicks.
Before the Rebels got started, the
ankees had their scoring fling*
aking it from D. Walker’s 57-
ard runhack, they moved 32 y irds-
i a "hurry. Lynn Chandnois, M chi.
m State, rammed over from the
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Darrel Royal mf Oklahoma, (vhc [
layed only defense because of a 1
i leg, started I the Yankees off
76:yard scoring march with
ss interception—the only one <
dwells arm. Lebaron threw to
wens on a 46-yard scoring pass. ,;
Walker kicked one extra point. .
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 9—'.'P'—
Seven players Who participated; in ;
Saturday’s Senibr Bowl game were .
dropped from the athletic schpljar-
Shpi rolls of their colleges, it was
disclosed here. I
| Billy Pearre, general manager
of the, Senior Bowl, said three
pchools of the!.Southwest 'Cpn-i
jference announced they wcjuld
cut off funds (of the players
.■ause they got cash awards Btor
playing in thp post-season game
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; The players jncluded: Rgy Bort
man and Paul! CampbeH of Texas
University; Dick McKissick, Jgck
Haliiday and Doak _Wnlker[Jof «I
i The 20 wirjning
iNorth-South jboiit each
ns their shafe of the
louthern Methodist; Theron Rob-
jerts of Arkaiisas; and J, B. Ison
pf Baylor.
Winnerk Received $475
players fn (he
;h got $475
r -s their share of the gate 're
ceipts and the 24 losers each was
awarded $343. Pearre said none re
fused the money. .
Although ijo suspended player
indicated he would have to drop
(out Of school for lack Of fupds,
iPoaiTc was indignant about (the
action. He said he also had Con
tacted many of the alumni of j the
four schools and they all told /him
they felt the schools were !‘un-
giateful.” ] ,1 ‘ . /
If i.hc schools actualfy do this,
according to the alumni he con
tacted, they are going to sti rt a
drive for funds to reimburse every
(player for what he loses.
Pearre said that, as an eiam-
ple bf the high esteem the new
[bowl has woin, two large i ities
already have, contacted bin to
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